since 1940
Contemporary
1,382 authors
Philosophy 206
- Martha Nussbaum b. 1947
- Manuel Castells b. 1942
- Andrey Korotayev b. 1961
- Oksana Zabuzhko b. 1960
- Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt b. 1960
- Tariq Ramadan b. 1962
- Peter Sloterdijk b. 1947
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe b. 1949
- Donna Haraway b. 1944
- Luciano Floridi b. 1964
- Alain de Botton b. 1969
- Michel Onfray b. 1959
- Alain Finkielkraut b. 1949
- Terence McKenna 1946–2000
- David Chalmers b. 1966
- Chantal Mouffe b. 1943
- Jaan Kaplinski 1941–2021
- Silvia Federici b. 1942
- Douglas Hofstadter b. 1945
- Régis Debray b. 1940
- Nick Bostrom b. 1973
- Nancy Fraser b. 1947
- Michael Sandel b. 1953
- Jacques Rancière b. 1940
- Fernando Savater b. 1947
- John N. Gray b. 1948
- William Lane Craig b. 1949
- Cornel West b. 1953
- Byung-Chul Han b. 1959
- Derek Parfit 1942–2017
- Kwame Anthony Appiah b. 1954
- Jean-Luc Nancy 1940–2021
- Patricia Churchland b. 1943
- Achille Mbembe b. 1957
- David Lewis 1941–2001
- Étienne Balibar b. 1942
- John Zerzan b. 1943
- Victor Skumin b. 1948
- Christina Hoff Sommers b. 1950
- Axel Honneth b. 1949
- Jean-Luc Marion b. 1946
- Rémi Brague b. 1947
- Élisabeth Badinter b. 1944
- Wendy Brown b. 1955
- Will Kymlicka b. 1962
- Jon Elster b. 1940
- Guillaume Faye 1949–2019
- José Horacio Gómez b. 1951
- Filippo Grandi b. 1957
- Abdolkarim Soroush b. 1945
- Simon Blackburn b. 1944
- Ravi Zacharias 1946–2020
- Michael Ruse 1940–2024
- Susan Haack 1945–2026
- Richard David Precht b. 1964
- Antanas Mockus b. 1952
- Michael Hardt b. 1960
- Geydar Dzhemal 1947–2016
- André Comte-Sponville b. 1952
- Seyla Benhabib b. 1950
- Luc Ferry b. 1951
- Tanella Boni 1954–2026
- Augusto Paolo Lojudice b. 1964
- Rüdiger Safranski b. 1945
- A. C. Grayling b. 1949
- Iris Marion Young 1949–2006
- Nasr Abu Zayd 1943–2010
- John Finnis b. 1940
- Derrick Jensen b. 1960
- Lea Ypi b. 1979
- John McDowell b. 1942
- Tomáš Halík b. 1948
- Isabelle Stengers b. 1949
- Barbara Cassin b. 1947
- Alister McGrath b. 1953
- Bernard Stiegler 1952–2020
- Daniel Bensaïd 1946–2010
- Rebecca Goldstein b. 1950
- Philippe Van Parijs b. 1951
- Rosi Braidotti b. 1954
- Mykola Ovcharov b. 1988
- Nancy Cartwright b. 1944
- Ned Block b. 1942
- Domenico Losurdo 1941–2018
- Heiner Koch b. 1954
- Christine Korsgaard b. 1952
- Julian Baggini b. 1968
- Gadis Arivia b. 1964
- Quentin Meillassoux b. 1967
- Massimo Cacciari b. 1944
- Stanley Hauerwas b. 1940
- Gilles Lipovetsky b. 1944
- Marshall Berman 1940–2013
- Paul B. Preciado b. 1970
- Alex Callinicos b. 1950
- Didier Eribon b. 1953
- Jason Stanley b. 1969
- Roberto Mangabeira Unger b. 1947
- Robert Alexy 1945–2026
- Robert Todd Carroll 1945–2016
- Alexander Berzin b. 1944
- Philip Pettit b. 1945
- Richard Carrier b. 1969
- Susan Neiman b. 1955
- Pierre Lévy b. 1956
- Robert Brandom b. 1950
- Miranda Fricker b. 1966
- Carlos Blanco Pérez b. 1986
- Sadie Plant b. 1964
- Marcello Pera b. 1943
- Sari Nusseibeh b. 1949
- Javad Tabatabai 1945–2023
- Marilyn McCord Adams 1943–2017
- Joxe Azurmendi 1941–2025
- Hartmut Rosa b. 1965
- Catherine Malabou b. 1959
- Magdalena Środa b. 1957
- Simon Critchley b. 1960
- David Bentley Hart b. 1965
- Timothy Williamson b. 1955
- Pekka Himanen b. 1973
- Graham Harman b. 1968
- Maurizio Ferraris b. 1956
- Djamila Ribeiro b. 1980
- Guy Hocquenghem 1946–1988
- Andrei Pleșu b. 1948
- Alev Alatlı 1944–2024
- Maria Lugones 1944–2020
- Vittorio Hösle b. 1960
- Avital Ronell b. 1952
- François Jullien b. 1951
- Daryush Shokof b. 1954
- Elizabeth S. Anderson b. 1959
- Gwenaëlle Aubry b. 1971
- Massimo Pigliucci b. 1964
- Michel Weber b. 1963
- Fabrice Hadjadj b. 1971
- David Pearce b. 1959
- Sally Haslanger b. 1955
- Peter Boghossian b. 1966
- Maxence Caron b. 1976
- Kohei Saito b. 1987
- Roger-Pol Droit b. 1949
- Onora O'Neill b. 1941
- Frank Cameron Jackson b. 1943
- Molefi Kete Asante b. 1942
- Philip Kitcher b. 1947
- Peter van Inwagen b. 1942
- Stephen Batchelor b. 1953
- Peter Suber b. 1951
- Phillip Blond b. 1966
- Georges Didi-Huberman b. 1953
- Lars Svendsen b. 1970
- Stephen Hicks b. 1960
- Paul Boghossian b. 1957
- Jean-Claude Michéa b. 1950
- Andres Luure b. 1959
- Karlina Leksono Supelli b. 1958
- Antoni Comín b. 1971
- Gáspár Miklós Tamás 1948–2023
- Jonathan Dancy b. 1946
- Marcel Gauchet b. 1946
- Graham Priest b. 1948
- Jan Góra 1948–2015
- Thomas Pogge b. 1953
- Juan Mayorga b. 1965
- Stefan Lorenz Sorgner b. 1973
- Max More b. 1964
- Roberto Esposito b. 1950
- Solomiia Pavlychko 1958–1999
- Shelly Kagan b. 1956
- Omar Barghouti b. 1964
- Timothy Morton b. 1968
- Mladen Dolar b. 1951
- Uladzimir Mackievič b. 1956
- Giacomo Morandi b. 1965
- Jason Brennan b. 1979
- Srećko Horvat b. 1983
- William MacAskill b. 1987
- Jacques Bouveresse 1940–2021
- Tu Weiming b. 1940
- Ray Brassier b. 1965
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- Isabel Allende b. 1942
- Han Kang b. 1970
- Roger Ebert 1942–2013
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie b. 1977
- Alice Walker b. 1944
- Arundhati Roy b. 1961
- Annie Ernaux b. 1940
- Peter Handke b. 1942
- Abdulrazak Gurnah b. 1948
- Ahmet Davutoğlu b. 1959
- Yuval Noah Harari b. 1976
- Khaled Hosseini b. 1965
- Bernardo Bertolucci 1941–2018
- Klaus Ebner b. 1964
- Michael Crichton 1942–2008
- Michel Houellebecq b. 1956
- Jordan Peterson b. 1962
- Neil Gaiman b. 1960
- Amélie Nothomb b. 1966
- Robert Zemeckis b. 1952
- Christopher Hitchens 1949–2011
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- Tom Clancy 1947–2013
- Ted Kaczynski 1942–2023
- Tina Fey b. 1970
- Jostein Gaarder b. 1952
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- Julia Kristeva b. 1941
- Paul Auster 1947–2024
- Jon Fosse b. 1959
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- Stephenie Meyer b. 1973
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- Mahmoud Darwish 1941–2008
- Philip Pullman b. 1946
- Michael Moore b. 1954
- Sam Harris b. 1967
- Eduardo Galeano 1940–2015
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- Jhumpa Lahiri b. 1967
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- John Green b. 1977
- Andrzej Sapkowski b. 1948
- Bear Grylls b. 1974
- Henning Mankell 1948–2015
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- Julian Barnes b. 1946
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- bell hooks 1952–2021
- Zadie Smith b. 1975
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- Boris Akunin b. 1956
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- Eckhart Tolle b. 1948
- Martin Amis 1949–2023
- Yann Martel b. 1963
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- Andrea Dworkin 1946–2005
- Christopher Paolini b. 1983
- John Irving b. 1942
- Joss Whedon b. 1964
- Rick Riordan b. 1964
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- Chelsea Clinton b. 1980
- Ravindra Prabhat b. 1969
- David Foster Wallace 1962–2008
- Ken Follett b. 1949
- Sofi Oksanen b. 1977
- Frédéric Beigbeder b. 1965
- Victoria Amelina 1986–2023
- Fatema Mernissi 1940–2015
- Robert Fisk 1946–2020
- Sadhguru b. 1957
- Iain Banks 1954–2013
- Antonio Tabucchi 1943–2012
- Martha Stewart b. 1941
- Amal Clooney b. 1978
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb b. 1960
- Roberto Bolaño 1953–2003
- Tariq Ali b. 1943
- Nora Roberts b. 1950
- Dubravka Ugrešić 1949–2023
- Raymond Kurzweil b. 1948
- Michael Mann b. 1943
- Irvine Welsh b. 1958
- R. L. Stine b. 1943
- David Grossman b. 1954
- Ann Coulter b. 1961
- Clive Barker b. 1952
- Rupi Kaur b. 1992
- Bernhard Schlink b. 1944
- Lyudmila Ulitskaya b. 1943
- Cory Doctorow b. 1971
- Octavia E. Butler 1947–2006
- Michael Ondaatje b. 1943
- James Patterson b. 1947
- Angela Carter 1940–1992
- Frank Miller b. 1957
- Karen Armstrong b. 1944
- Caroline Kennedy b. 1957
- Elvira Lindo b. 1962
- Gavin McInnes b. 1970
- Oksana Zabuzhko b. 1960
- Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt b. 1960
- Bret Easton Ellis b. 1964
- Shonda Rhimes b. 1970
- Sally Rooney b. 1991
- Amy Tan b. 1952
- Amanda Gorman b. 1998
- Anne Applebaum b. 1964
- Lucía Etxebarria b. 1966
- Jeton Kelmendi b. 1978
- Fareed Zakaria b. 1964
- John Banville b. 1945
- Ben Okri b. 1959
- Liu Cixin b. 1963
- Sophie Kinsella 1969–2025
- Roberto Saviano b. 1979
- Jonathan Franzen b. 1959
- Ken Saro-Wiwa 1941–1995
- Cassandra Clare b. 1973
- Agnieszka Holland b. 1948
- Slavenka Drakulić 1949–2026
- James L. Brooks b. 1940
- James Mangold b. 1963
- Anne Tyler b. 1941
- Brandon Sanderson b. 1975
- James Gunn b. 1966
- Amitav Ghosh b. 1956
- Arto Paasilinna 1942–2018
- Banana Yoshimoto b. 1964
- Michael Chabon b. 1963
- Arianna Huffington b. 1950
- Nick Hornby b. 1957
- Laura Esquivel b. 1950
- Elizabeth Gilbert b. 1969
- Tsitsi Dangarembga b. 1959
- Cornelia Funke b. 1958
- Jeff Kinney b. 1971
- Martin McDonagh b. 1970
- Buchi Emecheta 1944–2017
- Jeanette Winterson b. 1959
- Arturo Pérez-Reverte b. 1951
- Dean Koontz b. 1945
- Vikram Seth b. 1952
- Colleen Hoover b. 1979
- Alessandro Baricco b. 1958
- Eoin Colfer b. 1965
- Barbara Kingsolver b. 1955
- Samantha Power b. 1970
- E. L. James b. 1963
- Lois McMaster Bujold b. 1949
- Camille Paglia b. 1947
- Luis Sepúlveda 1949–2020
- Tuomas Holopainen b. 1976
- Nigel Short b. 1965
- Leyla Zana b. 1961
- Marianne Williamson b. 1952
- Marilynne Robinson b. 1943
- Bill Bryson b. 1951
- Thomas Friedman b. 1953
- Veronica Roth b. 1988
- Anna Gavalda b. 1970
- Peter Ackroyd b. 1949
- Michael Cunningham b. 1952
- David O. Russell b. 1958
- David Mitchell b. 1969
- Baz Luhrmann b. 1962
- Kim Stanley Robinson b. 1952
- Javier Marías 1951–2022
- Andrey Kurkov b. 1961
- Bernard Werber b. 1961
- Chantal Akerman 1950–2015
- Camilla Läckberg b. 1974
- Mike Leigh b. 1943
- Vladimir Sorokin b. 1955
- Serhiy Zhadan b. 1974
- Hossein Shahabi 1967–2023
- Vladimir Bukovsky 1942–2019
- Sue Grafton 1940–2017
- Patricia Cornwell b. 1956
- Cecelia Ahern b. 1981
- Robert Jordan 1948–2007
- Robert Harris b. 1957
- Gillian Flynn b. 1971
- Dan Simmons 1948–2026
- Leïla Slimani b. 1981
- Anne Enright b. 1962
- Helen Fielding b. 1958
- Susanna Tamaro b. 1957
- MacKenzie Scott b. 1970
- Péter Esterházy 1950–2016
- Scott Adams 1957–2026
- Paul Greengrass b. 1955
- Ian Rankin b. 1960
- António Lobo Antunes 1942–2026
- Daniel Handler b. 1970
- James Ellroy b. 1948
- Stephen Wolfram b. 1959
- Rian Johnson b. 1973
- Tahar Ben Jelloun b. 1947
- Jonathan Safran Foer b. 1977
- Ryū Murakami 1952–2026
- Sarah Waters b. 1966
- Robin Sharma b. 1964
- Harlan Coben b. 1962
- Adam Zagajewski 1945–2021
- Charlie Kaufman b. 1958
- Terry Eagleton b. 1943
- Padma Lakshmi b. 1970
- Masih Alinejad b. 1976
- Alain de Botton b. 1969
- Lee Child b. 1954
- Michael Connelly b. 1956
- Dmitry Glukhovsky b. 1979
- David Brin b. 1950
- Marc Levy b. 1961
- Naomi Wolf b. 1962
- Virginie Despentes b. 1969
- Etgar Keret b. 1967
- Daniel Pennac b. 1944
- Ana Blandiana b. 1942
- Gilad Shalit b. 1986
- David Icke b. 1952
- Colm Tóibín b. 1955
- Arnaldur Indriðason b. 1961
- Malcolm Gladwell b. 1963
- Ryan Murphy b. 1965
- Daniel Kehlmann b. 1975
- David Mamet b. 1947
- Jenny Erpenbeck b. 1967
- Marie NDiaye b. 1967
- Hanif Kureishi b. 1954
- David Benioff b. 1970
- Junot Díaz b. 1968
- George Saunders b. 1958
- Sergio Badilla Castillo b. 1947
- Joseba Sarrionandia b. 1958
- K’naan b. 1978
- Don Rosa b. 1951
- Sofia Andrukhovych b. 1982
- Alain Finkielkraut b. 1949
- Terence McKenna 1946–2000
- Yasmina Khadra b. 1955
- Tim Rice b. 1944
- Sergey Lukyanenko b. 1968
- John Boyne b. 1971
- N. K. Jemisin b. 1972
- Neal Stephenson b. 1959
- Jonathan Littell b. 1967
- Pascal Quignard b. 1948
- Karl Ove Knausgård b. 1968
- Kathy Acker 1947–1997
- Elizabeth Strout b. 1956
- Jojo Moyes b. 1969
- Ali Smith b. 1962
- Erlend Loe b. 1969
- Fred Vargas b. 1957
- Fausto Cercignani b. 1941
- Nigella Lawson b. 1960
- Martin Seligman b. 1942
- Richard Curtis b. 1956
- Edgar Wright b. 1974
- Louise Erdrich b. 1954
- Andy Weir b. 1972
- Robin Morgan 1941–2026
- Colson Whitehead b. 1969
- Boualem Sansal b. 1944
- Viktor Suvorov b. 1947
- Jacqueline Wilson b. 1945
- Andreï Makine b. 1957
- Glenn Greenwald b. 1967
- Greg Bear 1951–2022
- China Miéville b. 1972
- Nuruddin Farah b. 1945
- Susanna Clarke b. 1959
- Eleanor Catton b. 1985
- Carol Ann Duffy b. 1955
- Steven Moffat b. 1961
- Dennis Lehane b. 1965
- Jeffrey Kent Eugenides b. 1960
- Lydia Davis b. 1947
- Péter Nádas 1942–2026
- Yurii Andrukhovych b. 1960
- Irom Chanu Sharmila b. 1972
- Paul W. S. Anderson b. 1965
- Junji Itō b. 1963
- Raif Badawi b. 1984
- Fredrik Backman b. 1981
- Pat Barker b. 1943
- Bruce Sterling b. 1954
- Yu Hua b. 1960
- Vernor Vinge 1944–2024
- José Eduardo Agualusa b. 1960
- Douglas Coupland b. 1961
- Robin Hobb b. 1952
- Mohsen Makhmalbaf b. 1957
- Meg Cabot b. 1967
- Anthony Doerr b. 1973
- Paula Hawkins b. 1972
- Timothy Garton Ash b. 1955
- Walter Isaacson b. 1952
- Bruce Chatwin 1940–1989
- Jennifer Egan b. 1962
- Marie Kondō b. 1984
- Dag Solstad 1941–2025
- Howard Jacobson b. 1942
- Alex Garland b. 1970
- Muriel Barbery b. 1969
- Polina Zherebtsova b. 1985
- Tony Buzan 1942–2019
- Anvar Chingizoghlu 1962–2022
- Anthony Horowitz b. 1955
- Richard Ford b. 1944
- Hanya Yanagihara b. 1974
- Gregory Benford b. 1941
- Aslı Erdoğan b. 1967
- Bernardo Atxaga b. 1951
- Tony Kushner b. 1956
- Yegor Letov 1964–2008
- Gil Scott-Heron 1949–2011
- Jan Guillou b. 1944
- David Koepp b. 1963
- David Crystal b. 1941
- Tom Brokaw b. 1940
- Bernardine Evaristo b. 1959
- Eduardo Mendoza Garriga b. 1943
- Markus Zusak b. 1975
- Donna Leon b. 1942
- Katie Couric b. 1957
- C. J. Cherryh b. 1942
- Kamel Daoud b. 1970
- Robin Cook b. 1940
- Siri Hustvedt b. 1955
- James Dashner b. 1972
- Sjón b. 1962
- Chetan Bhagat b. 1974
- Adam Michnik b. 1946
- Diana Gabaldon b. 1952
- Jeff Lindsay b. 1952
- R. A. Salvatore b. 1959
- Ayşe Kulin b. 1941
- Ken Wilber b. 1949
- Wayne Dyer 1940–2015
- J. Michael Straczynski b. 1954
- David D. Friedman b. 1945
- Mia Couto b. 1955
- Lukas Moodysson b. 1969
- Leszek Engelking 1955–2022
- Clarissa Pinkola Estés b. 1945
- Robert Hübner 1948–2025
- Neil Peart 1952–2020
- Jon Krakauer b. 1954
- Carol J. Adams b. 1951
- Geraldo Rivera b. 1943
- Karim Findi b. 1946
- Fernando Savater b. 1947
- Abel Azcona b. 1988
- Joe Abercrombie b. 1974
- Isabel Coixet b. 1960
- Catherine Breillat b. 1948
- Sara Ahmed b. 1969
- Jamaica Kincaid b. 1949
- Graham Swift b. 1949
- Dave Eggers b. 1970
- Jung Chang b. 1952
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- Kamila Shamsie b. 1973
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- Rosa Montero b. 1951
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- Jodi Picoult b. 1966
- Eve Ensler b. 1953
- Frans Sammut 1945–2011
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- Mustafa Balel b. 1945
- Rebecca Walker b. 1969
- Paolo Giordano b. 1982
- Guillaume Musso b. 1974
- Candace Bushnell b. 1958
- Geraldine Brooks b. 1955
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